How could the world let the Holocausts happen?

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Answer 1

God only knows????

Answer 2

"The world" is a rather large generality, but fear of the Jews and other groups created within Germany by Hitler and the Nazis through extensive propaganda campaigns was the first step.
Then ignorance due to the deliberate suppression of the facts about what was really going on. (Also murdering all those who could expose the atrocity was part of the plan)
Don't forget that there was no Internet or World Wide Web back then and the media was and still is controlled to a large degree.
But the real reason ultimately, when the facts finally did start to leak out and circulate across the world, was disbelief.
The fact is that EVIL is the hardest thing for mankind to confront.
When faced with it he looks away and refuses to see it or believe it. He then justifies this by looking into his own heart and says this cannot be happening because it is not a thing that I could ever do, therefore it cannot be.
When all the evidence and facts were finally in plain view there
were and are still people who could not or would not believe it,
or who chose to remain in fear of other human beings in order to justify what was done by the Nazis.
The ability to CONFRONT something is directly related to the ability and willingness to DO something about it.
Similar atrocities go on in the world today but the true instigators
of this evil are much more hidden and insidious and rely on our inability to confront evil in order to continue.
Hitler and the Nazis were an obvious target finally, but actually there were hidden evil influences that helped put them into power who used them for their agenda.
Recommend reading the book " The Men Behind Hitler"
Hope this helps answer your question.

Answer 3

Hatred, prejudice, fear, denial, indifference. There were some countries wherein a large majority of people also hated the Jews. In countries where there wasn't outright hatred, there was still a lot of prejudice, including this country. There was a Nazi movement right here in the US during the mid-30's, and the members actually went to Germany to meet Hitler and get his blessing. (They didn't get his blessing. He would hardly acknowledge them. ) In Germany, those who had neither hatred for the Jews nor had prejudices against them, were in danger themselves, and most of them were too afraid to speak up or act. Then there were those who were, and still are, in denial about it. They cannot conceive that such atrocities could occur under their very noses. This includes other countries as well. But I think, by far, the biggest contribution to the holocaust was indifference. The idea that if it doesn't directly affect you, then you don't have to care. And there are plenty of examples since the holocaust that bear this out. Saddam Hussein had already committed mass murder before he was stopped. Pol pot, Idi Amin, the list goes on. The fact is, we let it happen, the world let it happen, because we didn't care enough to stop it.

Answer 4

Beginning in West Germany in the early 1930's, a nutcase by the name of Adolph Hitler was allowed to run wild, because the people there became afraid of him, etc. At first they thought he was a good thing for Deutschland, etc. Rumors started evolving about the concentration camps, etc. but lots of people were in denial. The non-Jew Germans disbelieved what was going on, and if they did believe what was going on; they were powerless to stop it and couldn't stop it. Only when the Americans and Russians got involved did Hitler's regime cave and that holocaust was over. Now we have the United Nations which monitors world happenings; and hopefully nothing of that magnitude will happen again; even though Saddam Hussein got away with a lot of those things (very similar to Hitler). Scary stuff.

Answer 5

The world would very easily let the Holocausts happen again. The reason is so many of the younger people don't believe it happened. Few are left that can tell the tale and have others listen. In minor ways haven't Holocausts happened-Saddam Hussein killing everyone in that one town because a handful from that town had tried to assassinate him, Dafur where anyone of a certain religion is outright killed.

Answer 6

Did you know Hitler wasn't even German? He was Austrian.

That one man was evil beyond human comprehension. The people who helped claimed they didn't know any better and they were doing as they were told. Were they partially mentally challenged? It doesn't take much to know murdering people is bad.

The rest of the wold (well, most of it) fought to stop the Holocaust. It was a terrible time for the world. Just thank God that it's over and will never happen again. Hitler is dead.

Answer 7

The Jewish Holocaust in Germany, the death of millions under Stallin, Mao and Pol Pot... Look at what is happening in Africa right now.

Business interest, political interests, financial interests.... these are put ahead of doing what is right and protecting the innocent etc. Jesus asked that we do onto others as we WOULD HAVE THEM DO on us.... too bad more don't read that and Proverbs 16, they should be read alot more!

Answer 8

Seems like I have had this question in my mind ever since I learned about it?

I do not know how such a thing could have gone as far as it did. Israelites near destroyed the tribe of Benjamin for acting the same as Sodom and Gomorrah. Where was the people in the world that were supposed to go against the slaughter of humankind.

I do not know.

Answer 9

Heinrich Himmler supposedly claimed that the holocaust had never been the original intention but things just got completely out of control.

Answer 10

The world has to grow up. Whether it was the Armenians, the Jews, blacks and Mexicans in America at that time or China under Chairman Mao, the world has not yet chosen to grow up and help each other.

Why would the Irish kill each other and not many want to help, why must we close our eyes at the people of the Darfur?

Until we grow up, who knows.

Answer 11

Unfortunately everyone believed it wasn't their problem, and it wouldn't affect them...kind of like all the Liberals are acting about the war on terror..."its not going to affect us, so let someone else fix it" kind of attitude...Only Americans had the guts to fight back and saved Europe from the sick demented mind of Hitler...If we hadn't who knows what our world would look like!
Sad but true...I used to consider myself a liberal, and didn't want GB for president, but when the 2 towers came crumbling down...I knew there wasn't anyone better to handle the situation...

And for those who don't believe it happened...take a trip to a German concentration camp and watch some of the videos of the mass graves...then tell me you don't think it happened...FKN MORONS!!!